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Culinary Essex

Whether you live in Essex or are a visitor to our county, you will be pleased to know that Essex is crammed with foodie delights!

Cookery schools

For the foodie there are few as perfect a county to visit than Essex; a region where Michelin starred venues can be found, where farms can be visited, fruit may be picked and, as the title suggests, where new culinary skills can be mastered within a range of Cookery Schools ...

Dining out

Essex is as well known for its shopping and cultural establishments as it is for the wide and varied selection of dining out experiences. Here we've whittled down some of the finest culinary experiences within the region ...

Farm shops

Today there are more walks, trails and rural sights to be explored than can be filled within even the most packed out of fortnight holidays, and as key to experiencing the best of rural Essex are a plethora of farm shops that sell the finest of the county's produce ...

Farmers markets

It goes without saying that Essex is very much a county that has frequent Farmers Markets throughout the region, and here we take a look at just what such traditional shopping events offer for both the consumer and local supplier alike ...

Pick your own farms

Essex is home to some of the very best and most beautiful of rolling English countryside and with a reputation for wonderful farms that produce some of the UK's finest produce it seems only right that tourists to the region get to experience such farming for themselves ...

Pubs & inns

Essex offers much for the lover of cuisine, from cookery schools to beautiful vineyards. However for the tourist who seeks a more subdued way of experiencing the county's food and drink offerings there are a seemingly never ending array of pubs and inns ...

Vineyards

Many may underestimate this county as merely being one of fine cuisine with food and drink shipped in from the regions beyond. However Essex is in fact a region of wonderful farms and beautiful vineyards that produce award winning wines ...